DwellClick is an app that clicks the mouse for you, and lets you give your fingers a rest!
Click and drag with mouse movements only. No clicking required!
Save thousands of clicks per day. No more tired and sore hands.
Drag and resize windows so easily it's like magic!
Works great with any trackpad or mouse.
It's a whole new way to use your Mac. You do the pointing, and DwellClick takes care of the clicks. And with the unique Auto Drag feature, dragging the mouse is effortless too.
DwellClick lets you adopt a totally relaxed
What's New
Version 2.1.2:
Fixed a bug where DwellClick's graphics would appear as a white box for some users.
Good idea. But 16 USD is to much. 5 USD would be more than enough. I am willing to pay for good ideas and proper work, but this is, as I said, to much. Lower the price and sell more copys. Much more.
This is an interesting program, although I don't yet know if I need it. For me, it provides a variation on the old "focus follows mouse" procedure, wherein one can hover the cursor over a background window and bring it to the front. That's not exactly what DwellClick does, but it can sort of work that way. (It will click the background window and bring it to the foreground.) I am definitely starting to find it handy in other ways as well.
To the developer: You are wise to offer a demo. It has me intrigued, and I'm certain that others who get to try it will find it worth pursuing. The only viable alternative I've seen is RapidClick, but there's no demo for that. Even though DwellClick is more expensive, I'll take the known over the unknown.
Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts, it's useful for me. I'm definitely going more and more in favor of trials. I recently introduced a trial version of PopClip (which was previously MAS-only, no trial) and it was well received.
The main drawback of trials is that it can complicate things (mainly from my point of view, admittedly), with different versions of the binary, having to invent and implement trial limitations and so on.
But the "trial + MAS" setup can also confuse some buyers. You might be surprised how many people, having bought from the MAS, hear an update is out and go to my site to download it, instead of updating within the MAS. This has led to a number of emails from confused customers in my inbox.
The typical RapidClick buyer tends to be not as technically sophisticated as, say, the average PopClip and DwellClick buyer. So I feel the simplicity of a MAS-only approach is a good argument for keeping it that way for RapidClick. For now, anyway.
DwellClick really improves the user experience and has quite a few customizable features. The feedback via both sound and countdown animation of a colored circle highlight are well-implemented. The developer is very responsive and is actively adding to the feature set of DwellClick.
I think that it would be nice if you could save different quick access palette configurations and switch between them. Also, the inclusion/exclusion list in the preference would be more useful if you could save different sets of rules and switch between those sets.
It's a great piece of software, and I know that certain planned additional features will add to its value. I must admit that at $15, DwellClick 1.5 is not an impulse buy. I highly appreciate the fact that the trial shareware version was full-featured and good for an entire month.
I'm sorry it gave you this trouble, and that you had to reboot. I'm very grateful for you for taking the time to report the problem.
I've just tested it with my own Wacom tablet, and I do find a similar problem when I hold the pen against the tablet. It seems the tablet sends tiny movement signals at all times, which is preventing DwellClick from registering that the pointer has been rested. In my case, it "un-pressed" when I took the pen well away from the tablet, but I guess your hardware may differ.
I will attempt to correct this problem in the next version of the software.
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DwellClick is an app that clicks the mouse for you, and lets you give your fingers a rest!
Click and drag with mouse movements only. No clicking required!
Save thousands of clicks per day. No more tired and sore hands.
Drag and resize windows so easily it's like magic!
Works great with any trackpad or mouse.
It's a whole new way to use your Mac. You do the pointing, and DwellClick takes care of the clicks. And with the unique Auto Drag feature, dragging the mouse is effortless too.
DwellClick lets you adopt a totally relaxed posture and use your Mac with mouse movements only. Once you discover a world without clicking, you will find you can use your Mac more enjoyably and with less effort. Work or play more efficiently and for longer, without tired and sore hands.
You can work faster, because your hands actually spend less time on the mouse or trackpad. Or just lean back and browse, and enjoy web surfing with minimal effort.
DwellClick works seamlessly with Mac OS X and has multiple intelligent features which help it keep out of your way and do its job, while you do your job. It works great with multi-touch trackpads and the Magic Mouse too.
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Forn reviewed on 30 Mar 2012
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Hamid914 reviewed on 05 Feb 2012
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To the developer: You are wise to offer a demo. It has me intrigued, and I'm certain that others who get to try it will find it worth pursuing. The only viable alternative I've seen is RapidClick, but there's no demo for that. Even though DwellClick is more expensive, I'll take the known over the unknown.
The main drawback of trials is that it can complicate things (mainly from my point of view, admittedly), with different versions of the binary, having to invent and implement trial limitations and so on.
But the "trial + MAS" setup can also confuse some buyers. You might be surprised how many people, having bought from the MAS, hear an update is out and go to my site to download it, instead of updating within the MAS. This has led to a number of emails from confused customers in my inbox.
The typical RapidClick buyer tends to be not as technically sophisticated as, say, the average PopClip and DwellClick buyer. So I feel the simplicity of a MAS-only approach is a good argument for keeping it that way for RapidClick. For now, anyway.
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Avis reviewed on 22 Feb 2011
I think that it would be nice if you could save different quick access palette configurations and switch between them. Also, the inclusion/exclusion list in the preference would be more useful if you could save different sets of rules and switch between those sets.
It's a great piece of software, and I know that certain planned additional features will add to its value. I must admit that at $15, DwellClick 1.5 is not an impulse buy. I highly appreciate the fact that the trial shareware version was full-featured and good for an entire month.
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One thing that would be very handy would be the ability to emulate a right-click or alt-click. Is there any way to add this?
Thanks
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Right click is equivalent to ctrl-click, which can be selected by clicking the bottom button in the control panel.
To do an alt-click/option-click, go to "Panel" in the Preferences and add the option-click button to the panel.
I hope you find DwellClick useful. If there are any more questions or improvements you would like to see, just let me know!
Nick,
DwellClick Developer
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Haven't played with it further since it rendered my Mac unusable until I was able to disable it.
I've just tested it with my own Wacom tablet, and I do find a similar problem when I hold the pen against the tablet. It seems the tablet sends tiny movement signals at all times, which is preventing DwellClick from registering that the pointer has been rested. In my case, it "un-pressed" when I took the pen well away from the tablet, but I guess your hardware may differ.
I will attempt to correct this problem in the next version of the software.
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I tried unplugging the tablet, but that didn't fix it for me so I wasn't sure what was wrong.
Thanks!